Given the absence of meaningful action on climate and environmental issues at the federal level, all eyes are on the states. Our eyes, of course, are on Salem. This is Oregon’s long session, when much can happen; it runs from January through June. By April 29th, we’ll be over halfway through and will have a sense of what bills may be moving and what are likely dead. SOCAN’s Federal and State Legislative Project Team has been very active during this session following over 70 bills with closing in on 150 written comments from over 20 SOCAN activists to which another dozen oral comments delivered during Public Hearings can be added.
Among the bills under consideration, several seek to resuscitate nuclear power plants in Oregon despite the 1980 ban, several follow the lead of Project 2025 and seek to suppress the Oregon vote, while others address water, the energy transmission grid or forest and fire issues.
At the next SOCAN open monthly Public General meeting we will discuss some of the critical bills that SOCAN is following and where things stand on issues of concern to us. We will also provide attendees with an opportunity to comment on bills of climate concern.
There is no charge for attending SOCAN events: https://socan.eco/events/